Arctotis asperaL.

WFO wfo-0000026964 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Arctotis aspera, photographed by Charleen Brunke
fig. a Charleen Brunke, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-04 / obs. 127226953
Arctotis aspera, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. b Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 90644682
Arctotis aspera, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 81851778
Arctotis aspera, photographed by Jeremy Gilmore
fig. d Jeremy Gilmore, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 51995765
Arctotis aspera, photographed by Chris Vynbos
fig. e Chris Vynbos, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 36697183
Arctotis aspera, photographed by Chris Vynbos
fig. f Chris Vynbos, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 36502500
Arctotis aspera, photographed by Chris Vynbos
fig. g Chris Vynbos, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 29687480
Arctotis aspera, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 29622861

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Arctotis aspera is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Arctotis aspera, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Cape Provinces CPP AFRICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 234 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 10.0 °C 12.4 °C 13.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 19.5 °C 19.9 °C 20.8 °C
Annual rainfall 761 mm 939 mm 1,184 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 75 mm 88 mm 110 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 234 research-grade observations of Arctotis aspera that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 23 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Anemonospermos angustifolia Kuntze
  • Anemonospermos aspera (L.) Kuntze
  • Anemonospermos glandulosa (Thunb.) Kuntze
  • Antrospermum kraussii Sch.Bip.
  • Arctotis angustifolia Jacq.
  • Arctotis arborescens Jacq.
  • Arctotis arborescens Willd. ex Harv.
  • Arctotis arborescens Willd.
  • Arctotis aspera f. aspera
  • Arctotis aspera f. typica Lewin
  • Arctotis aspera var. angustifolia (Jacq.) Harv.
  • Arctotis aspera var. angustifolia (Jacq.) Less.
  • Arctotis aspera var. arborescens (Jacq.) DC.
  • Arctotis aspera var. aureola (Ker Gawl.) DC.
  • Arctotis aspera var. undulata P.J.Bergius
  • Arctotis aureola Ker Gawl.
  • Arctotis glandulosa Thunb.
  • Arctotis glaucophylla Jacq.
  • Arctotis jacobaea Sch.Bip.
  • Arctotis kraussii Sch.Bip.
  • Arctotis maculata Jacq.
  • Arctotis radicans L.
  • Arctotis sulphurea Salisb.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.